Bruce Dean Willis is professor of Spanish and comparative literature at The University of Tulsa, where he teaches upper-level Spanish courses on Latin American literatures and cultures. He has written numerous articles as well as the books Aesthetics of Equilibrium: The Vanguard Poetics of Vicente Huidobro and Mário de Andrade (2006) and Corporeality in Early Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature: Body Articulations (2013). His research and teaching interests include contemporary Mexican and Brazilian literature and arts. On PJ Pereira’s work, he published the article “What Oxum Learns: The Epistemological Erotic in an African Source for Dona Flor and Deuses de Dois Mundos.”